rs earlier perienced with proprietors and their by F. E. Sickels, but Corliss was the engineers altering the valves. He in- tended to resume it at a later period first to attach the governor directly to the cut-off mechanism, and, by so do- when workmen of greater intelligence and reliability could… … nearly boiler pressure up to that point. was the introducing of the compound To form an idea of the advantages of or two-cylinder engine. Although the modern steam practice as compared first compound engine was invented in with that of the earlier stages of its use, 1 78 1 by Jonathan Hornblower,…
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